Carved and colourfully painted wooden figure of the Japanese Buddhist deity Kannon with a height of 49 cm (height with base: 56.5 cm). Kannon 觀音 (‘perceiving the prayers of the world’) is a Buddhist deity of East Asian culture and is one of the most revered deities. The colouring is rubbed, arms and feet missing. Provenance: Ex collection Otto Falckenberg (1873, Koblenz - 1947, Munich), German director, theatre manager and writer as well as ‘God's patron’. With further older inventory notes.